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There was a chess game for the Atari 2600? :O
I wanna see them W I D E pieces.
I bet that's a slightly unfair representation of what it actually looked like. Graphics back then were purposely designed for how they would look on CRT tvs which add a lot of specific distortions to images. So taking a screenshot of a game running in an emulator without using a high quality crt filter added to the image will be a very untrue representation of what the game actually looked like.
(Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it actually looked great when displayed correctly, but i am saying it would've looked considerably better than this emulator screenshot)
Those are some funky looking knights lol
Never seen a snake/horse hybrid before?
Snorse
There's some very odd pieces on high dollar physical chess sets too.
I'm annoyed the pieces are bottom adjusted...
Can confirm.
And if you play it on expert mode, you can leave for college and get your degree before it’s your turn again.
Here you go (online emulator): https://www.retrogames.cz/play_716-Atari2600.php
WTF? I just played that just long enough for my queen to take over their queen, and it turned my queen into a rook?
Is that even a legit rule in any variation of chess rules?
I wasn't aware of that either, now I'm kinda curious to try to find it in my 512 Atari 2600 ROMs archive..